Deficiency of the ovarian hormone estrogen by ovariectomy in rats induces hypercholesterolemia and accumulation of hepatic triglyceride. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of nondigestive food components on lipid metabolism disorder in ovariectomized rats (OVX rats). For this purpose, "Yumekanae" as a low glutelin type rice cultivar and "Koshihikari" as a regular type rice cultivar, pectin as a water-soluble dietary fiber were used. Concentration of serum cholesterol in the OVX rats fed the Koshihikari rice flour diet lower than that in the OVX rats fed the other diets. BUN in OVX rats fed the pectin diet were slightly increased compared to that in rats fed the control diet. This result suggests a possibility that the pectin improves liver function in the OVX rats. Ingestion of Koshihikari and Yumekanae rice flour and pectin stimulated the growth of Bifidobacterium spp. or Lactobacillus spp. in the cecum of OVX rats. These results indicate that ingestion of rice flour (Koshihikari and Yumekanae) and pectin improves cecal microflora in the OVX rats. Furthermore, ingestion of Koshihikari rice flour may decrases serum cholesterol concentration in the OVX rats.

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Pre-training seminars on accident prevention during practical training are implemented in order to guarantee the safety of students and patients, as well as to prevent accidents during practical training in adult nursing. Seminars comprise independent study and group discussion using case studies. The present study aimed to assess the learning of students in such seminars and the use of this learning in practical training, and to identify changes in student learning by repeating the seminars twice, together with changes in awareness of accident prevention during practical training. Participants were third-year nursing students taking a practical training course in adult nursing who completed a written questionnaire on two occasions after finishing seminars on chronic period practical training and acute period practical training. The results showed that 90% of students imagined the accident situation, identified the cause of the accident, and could think about actions to prevent the accident in independent study, while 80% of students deepened their learning through group discussion. In addition, during practical training, they were able to apply their learning to take accident prevention measures such as predicting accidents and supplementing their fledgling knowledge and skills. In terms of changes through repeating the seminars twice, 70% of students responded that their depth of learning had not changed. These findings provide insights into seminar methods for linking students' knowledge to actual practice.

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Group interviews were conducted with twenty-one ward and outpatient nurses in order to clarify the present situation and issues in nursing support for young patients with gynecological cancer. Results showed that the present situation of nursing support can be characterized as follows: "Understanding the background with regards to issues such as partners and desire to have children from the early stages of involvement, in order to predict problems that may arise after treatment"; "Encouraging understanding of the effects of treatment and help with decision-making that patients are satisfied with"; and "Creating an environment in which patients can express their feelings on topics that are difficult to discuss with others". In terms of issues, the following emerged: "Lack of understanding of the needs of patients and their families due to time constraints and lack of coordination"; "Being unable to be fully involved in anguish concerning premature menopause and reproduction"; and "Speculating about the feelings of young patients and being on guard in the construction of a relationship of help". Ways of promoting understanding around issues of the desire to have children from an early stage, promoting decision-making that will not lead to regrets, and encouraging the expression of anguish that cannot be shared with others because of being young seem to be the characteristics of nursing for young patients with gynecological cancer. The study suggested that improvement of nursing support for young patients with gynecological cancer requires constructing of relationships of help with young patients and support aimed at the alleviation of anguish regarding sex.

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The purpose of this study was to clarify difficulty on life, and support needs of mothers of infants and toddlers with medical care. Nine mothers who had children (1-6-years-old) with medical care were interviewed about daily life and support needs. It was found that mothers felt difficulty related to medical care, disease, social life, and siblings. The supports that mothers needed were services such as the temporary childcare when they could not cope in families. In addition, the information about the welfare service, group childcare and elementary schools were required. The findings of the interviews demonstrated the need of system concerning continuous support to the individual family, related to the needs of continuation of the stable medical care, and the needs with development of children.

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The purpose of this study was to clarify the interactions with outpatient nurses required by outpatients with cancer and their family members in order to be able to live according to their own values while living with cancer. The subjects were 42 outpatients with cancer and their family members who belonged to a patients' association. We conducted five group interviews at separate patients' associations and used a qualitative and descriptive approach to analyze the collected data. From the data, we extracted 92 requirements from the patients and their family members regarding interactions with outpatient nurses. Based on semantic similarity, these were summarized into 22 points, such as the nurse making time to talk with the patient, assisting the patient in a relaxed atmosphere where it is easy to talk, strongly understanding the patient's disease condition and life situation, accepting the patient's feelings and remaining close by, providing straightforward explanations of the illness and treatment, considering solutions to problems together with the patients and family members, responding to phone consultations when the patient encounters difficulty at home, and encouraging the patient. These 22 points can be considered requests for outpatient nurses to create opportunities for interaction, requests concerning the nurses' knowledge and attitude when interacting with patients and their family members, and requests regarding the way in which the nurses interact with patients and their family members.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the support group (SG) participants' experiences in SG and the SG's evaluation method through Japanese literature review in order to examine the evaluation method of SG for cancer patients. The literature objects were as follows such as "research which clarifies SG participants' experiences" was 12, and "research which evaluate SG" was 8. Common experiences among many SG participants were five such as "experiences of catharsis and sharing through participants' gathering". Scales were used for SG's evaluation in many cases both short term and longitudinal evaluation. Quantitative evaluation with scales was effective for SG evaluation. But the necessity of qualitative and continuous evaluation for participants' experiences beyond scale was suggested, especially for the longitudinal evaluation.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the proper evaluation method on OSCE. 25 literature were elected from the database of Japan Medical Abstracts Society. Contents were analyzed, 5 Categories were investigated. 5 Categories: [Evaluation by faculty members] [evaluation by SP] [evaluation by faculty members and SP] [attempts to optimization of evaluation] [the tasks]. The Specific tasks: [evaluation criteria set] [evaluation method] [training of Evaluators] [development of SP] [practical use of SP] were raised.

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We carried out this study to obtain a suggestion to deal with stress to characterize the Solution and stress of nurses working in musculoskeletal nursing. Using SSCQ that Yahiro created by nurses working in musculoskeletal nursing in the prefecture A. A result of the investigation, at the age were significant Uplift, Nervousness, to TypeC. Years of experience in the nurse was a significant difference Uplifts, to TypeC. The number of stress symptoms showed a significant difference Dailyhassles, Hardiness, Anger, at TypeA. The need of the consideration to the nurse who accused a lot of clear subjective symptoms and the need of the investigation of patient properties and the workplace environment were suggested.

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The Department of Nursing in Chiba Prefectural University of Health Sciences, commissioned by the Medical Service Affairs Division in Chiba Prefecture, planned a physical assessment training program involving nurse professionals who work at geriatric nursing homes, and implemented the program on August 20 and September 4, 2012. The training program consisted of a lecture including the physical assessment of circulatory organs, respiratory organs, and digestive organs by visual inspection, palpation, tapping, and stethoscopic examination, and the assessment of swallowing function, as well as practical training using a patient simulator, a nurse training system produced by Kyoto Kagaku. From among the 245 geriatric nursing homes in Chiba prefecture, 67 people from 67 geriatric nursing homes applied for the course and 28 nurse professionals among them took the course. After completing the training program, we requested the participants to fill out a questionnaire to assess the importance and usefulness of the training program. Despite our expectation of the diverse learning needs of nurse professionals working at geriatric nursing homes, the participants mostly answered "satisfied" regarding the training's importance and "useful" regarding the training's usefulness. The physical assessment training for nurse professionals working at geriatric nursing homes in Chiba prefecture is scheduled to be provided again next year with modifications made in accordance with the answers we received to the questionnaire.

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